[Poll] On Linux, what should we commonly use as sub-directory name for D?

[Marco Leise]

Am Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:03:42 +0100
schrieb Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de>:

> Am Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:35:22 +0100
> schrieb Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com>:
> 
> > AFAIK you can't put shared libraries into a different folder.
> > The runtime linker must be able to find the libraries so the folders
> > have to be registered in ld.so.conf. But ld 'virtually merges' all
> > directories so you still can't have libraries with the same name &
> > version in different folders. There are some tricks (rpath,
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but this won't work well in a large scale scenario.
> 
> That explains why Haskell's Cabal is installing libraries with
> compiler AND library version in the file name :-/

That doesn't read too bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpath#GNU_ld.so
So -rpath basically just hints at the library location.
CMake has more or less direct support for it:
SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib")

The other option would be to install a symlink foo.so into the
compiler specific lib directory that links
to /usr/lib/foo-dmd.so.X.Y that has an soname of "foo.so.X".
But I feel that would confuse the pants off of people.

-- 
Marco